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It’s too bad there’s only one book at the 750 word level. 汉语风 is definitely the best graded reader series out there, and it is especially critical between the 1000-2000 word stage. This story was interesting and a quick read.

比较没有意思但是，我很喜欢中文风

Suggested reading for Iraq familiarization for working at the U.S. Embassy. Interesting, but I quickly realized it had nothing to do with my job in Baghdad so didn’t finish it. Too bad.

Let me summarize the book: Arabs were against the holocaust, but hated and hate zionism. That’s it. This book goes into excruciating detail about the different Arab groups that were against the holocaust and don’t like zionism, but didn’t seem to offer much more on the broader issue, and only skirts the issues of holocaust deniers at the very end.

Yes I read this book - don’t judge me. OK judge me. I read it 6 months ago and I’m really having a hard time remembering anything interesting or worthwhile. Guy tries to hide superpowers, fails, fights bad people, has high school problems. It’s like anamorphs but worse.

Vali Nasr is America’s resident ‘Shia expert’ and in no small part due to this book.

This book definitely has a target audience - somebody who hasn’t read anything about theoretical physics, doesn’t want to think about it too hard, but at least wants to know what everybody is talking about when they say quantum mechanics, big bang, or general relativity. I was not a part of this audience. I’ve read a few pop-science books before, The Elegant Universe about 7 years ago, and From Eternity to Here a few months ago. I enjoyed Eternity to Here much more; it went in to better detail about the mechanics of the questions that the author was trying to answer. A Brief History of Time covers nearly all the same subjects, but in a more general and useless fashion. ...

还行吧。我觉得这本书的语言水平适合我，但是我们为什么需要等到最后一部才看饥饿游戏的事件呢？

At first I worried that the book would be a Gladwell-eque adventure in drawing sweeping conclusions from limited anecdotes, but I actually found it to be a reasonable and refreshing way to interweave some interesting stories into a more useful meta-narrative. It leaves a lot of questions unanswered and does not set out with a concrete central idea, but for the size of the issues it sets out to tackle, I think this was the best approach.

This is the perspective of reading the book in Arabic from a native English speaker: How do I describe a collection of short stories like this? Clearly, it is impossible to doubt the quality of the stories, each of which was interesting and entertaining in its own right. My favorites were the ‘Tale of the Lamp’ in which we see a starved traveler stumble upon a rich kingdom, and ‘The Night and the Sea’ which painted a bleak but moving picture with its rich descriptions and overwhelming emotions. ...